Posted on 02/26/2023 4:14:59 PM PST by Libloather
Homeowners and builders are calling a possible ban on certain gas-powered appliances in the San Francisco Bay Area an extreme move, forcing a region prone to blackouts to rely even further on an over-burdened electrical supply.
"This is just pure extremist politics being taken to the ultimate extremes," said National Association of Home Builders CEO Jerry Howard. "You talk to anybody in California, their electrical grid can't take the current strain in the summer, obviously, and you're going to add to it by making every car electric, every furnace, every air conditioner, every refrigerator, every stove electric?"
"Once you start down this path that gas is bad, it gives momentum to all of these extremists who are choosing to ignore the facts and pursue an agenda that is only going to cause more people to be paying too much for their housing or, God forbid, more homelessness in an area that's already ravaged by homelessness," he continued.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is considering two rules that will ban the sale and installation of water heaters, boilers and furnaces that emit nitrogen oxide, which regulators say could cause asthma and other health issues. The move would effectively ban gas-powered versions of those appliances, meaning only those that run on electricity would be permitted.
Last week, over 100,000 customers in the Bay Area lost power as a cold front with high winds caused downed power lines and outages, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Additionally, California can't meet its current demand and imported 30% of its electricity from out-of-state sources in 2021, according to the California Electrical Commission.
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The Left has a new magical thinking: just ban everything that doesn’t run on unicorn rainbows and sunshine and a world where everyone equitably has nice stuff will suddenly appear.
It’s just as ‘crazy’ as the idiotic lunacy over EVs. Most of the advocates for these ‘crazy’ pipe dreams have no real-world experience in life.
In an extremely cold climate a gas stove and gas log might be the only way to survive an extended winter power outage.
Flick you Bic, go to jail.
We are glad that our engineer son and GK talked us out of installing a natural gas emergency electrical standby power generator/unit last year.
The problem is that, although there is federalism and 50 laboratories of democracy, in theory, in practice the leakages of federal funds mean you cannot isolate the idiocy of CA to CA. It leaks to the rest of the country, and farmers in Kansas pay for it. I would like to let them stew in their own idiocy, but in the end I will have to pay for it anyway.
equal misery for all (with a few exceptions)
bkmk
Hasn’t San Fran banned wood stoves?
California is a citizens initiative State, a simple initiative mandating that All persons who are Public Employee’s and who have ever been a public employee and all persons that receive any kind of subsistence payments or credits, Shall be prohibited from using, owning or possessing any type of Natural Gas Appliance.
SHOW US HOW IT IS DONE
Imagine — teams of doctors in this “transgender-sanctuary state” are in the middle of removing some dysphoric child’s healthy genital or breast tissue, when suddenly the power goes out! “Oh, no! Why did Sacramento destroy our natural gas systems, overloading our electrical systems?”
Equity ist wunderbar!
Let them do it. Help them do it. Then watch them squirm when it fails horribly. Then no bailouts. They did it to themselves.
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